Safari Passport
Travel across Africa with Zuri the giraffe. Visit 20 amazing places, from Mount Kilimanjaro, Victoria Falls and the Pyramids of Giza to Nigeria’s Zuma Rock and Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove. Learn each place’s story, see exactly where it is on the map of Africa, read its fact file, then take the quiz to collect a passport stamp. “Safari” is the Swahili word for “journey”.
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Quick facts
- Subject
- Geography, history and conservation of Africa
- Levels
- Little Explorers (ages 3–5), Young Explorers (Primary), Expert Guides (JSS, SSS and adults)
- Places
- 20 places in 18 countries, across all five regions of Africa
- Play time
- About 5 minutes per place
- Help
- Read-aloud on every page, a map of Africa, big buttons, keyboard play, works offline once visited
- Cost
- Free forever · No sign-up · No ads
How to play
Choose who is playing, then pick a game. Learn first, then take the quiz. Stamps are saved on your device only.
- 🗺️ Explore & Learn: tap a pin on the map of Africa (or choose from the list). Read or listen to the story of the place, see its fact file and where it is on the map, then take a short quiz to earn its passport stamp.
- 🖼️ Picture Quiz (Little Explorers): easy picture questions about places across Africa.
- 🛂 Passport Quiz (Primary and up): mixed questions about all 20 places. Play alone or pass the phone.
- 📍 Map Challenge (Primary and up): tap the country where each place is found.
The 20 places
- West Africa: Zuma Rock and Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove (Nigeria), Cape Coast Castle (Ghana), the Great Mosque of Djenné (Mali), Lake Retba, the Pink Lake (Senegal)
- East Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Maasai Mara (Kenya), Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (Uganda), the Rock Churches of Lalibela (Ethiopia)
- North Africa: the Pyramids of Giza (Egypt), the Pyramids of Meroë (Sudan), Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakesh (Morocco)
- Central Africa: Mount Cameroon (Cameroon)
- Southern Africa: Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe), Table Mountain (South Africa), the Okavango Delta (Botswana), Sossusvlei dunes (Namibia), Great Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe), the Avenue of the Baobabs (Madagascar), Lake Malawi (Malawi)
What players learn
Where each place is (country, region and map location), what makes it special, its geography (volcanoes, deltas, deserts, rift valleys, inselbergs), its history (ancient kingdoms, Great Zimbabwe, the slave trade, Kush and Egypt), its wildlife, UNESCO World Heritage status and why it matters to people today, including tourism jobs and conservation.
For teachers and parents
Safari Passport supports Social Studies and Basic Science in Primary, and Geography, History, Civic Education and Tourism in JSS and SSS. Explore a place together on a projector, use the map to talk about regions and neighbouring countries, then play the Map Challenge or Passport Quiz as a class game.
Facts are simplified for learners; where sources give different figures, the game uses the best-supported one and says “about”. Cape Coast Castle’s history is told gently for younger children. Safari Passport supports UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education).